The year index
One file per year — the most widely covered and cited case on record — scrolling from the present back through the archive, with a single chapter for each century before 1900.
103 years and chapters on file
Catalina Foothills, Tucson, Arizona
Nancy Guthrie, an 84-year-old Tucson, Arizona resident and mother of journalist Savannah Guthrie, disappeared from her home on February 1, 2026, in what investigators have described as an abduction; she remains missing and no one has been charged.
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Brentwood, Los Angeles, California
Filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, producer Michele Singer Reiner, were found fatally stabbed at their Los Angeles home on December 14, 2025; their son was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and has pleaded not guilty.
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Sade Robinson, a 19-year-old Milwaukee college student, was reported missing on April 2, 2024, and her dismembered remains were recovered from multiple locations over the following weeks. Maxwell Anderson was convicted of her murder on June 6, 2025, and sentenced to life in prison.
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Memphis, Tennessee
Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, died three days after being beaten by Memphis police officers during and after a traffic stop on January 7, 2023, an event that prompted criminal charges, protests, and a federal civil rights case.
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Moscow, Idaho
Four University of Idaho students—Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, and Xana Kernodle—were fatally stabbed inside an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho, in the early morning hours of November 13, 2022. Bryan Kohberger, a criminology PhD student at nearby Washington State University, was arrested that December and pleaded guilty in 2025, receiving four consecutive life sentences.
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Bridger–Teton National Forest, Wyoming
Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old travel vlogger, was killed by strangulation and blunt-force trauma in August 2021 while on a cross-country van trip with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. Laundrie returned to Florida alone, was named a person of interest, and later died by suicide, leaving a note admitting he had killed her.
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Winter Park, Florida, United States
Jorge Torres Jr. died of suffocation in Winter Park, Florida in February 2020 after his girlfriend, Sarah Boone, zipped him into a suitcase; she was convicted of second-degree murder in October 2024 and sentenced to life in prison.
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New Canaan, Connecticut, United States
Jennifer Dulos, a mother of five in New Canaan, Connecticut, disappeared on May 24, 2019, after being attacked at her home; her body has never been found, and she was declared legally dead in 2023. Her estranged husband, Fotis Dulos, was charged with her murder but died by suicide in January 2020 before trial, while his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, was convicted in 2024 of related charges.
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Oak Street, West Side, Binghamton, New York
Haley Anderson, a 22-year-old nursing student at Binghamton University, was strangled to death on March 8, 2018, by fellow student Orlando Tercero at his off-campus apartment. Tercero fled to Nicaragua, was captured days later, and was convicted of femicide there, receiving a 30-year sentence.
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South Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Argentina
The Argentine Navy submarine ARA San Juan disappeared in the South Atlantic on 15 November 2017 during a training exercise, with 44 crew members aboard. Despite a large multinational search, the vessel was not located until 16 November 2018, when the private company Ocean Infinity found its wreck at a depth of 907 metres. All 44 crew were lost.
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Delta, Fulton County, Ohio
Sierah Joughin, a 20-year-old Ohio college student, was abducted while bicycling home in Fulton County on July 19, 2016, and found dead three days later. James Dean Worley, a neighbor with a 1990 abduction conviction who was not listed in any offender database, was convicted of her murder in 2018 and sentenced to death, prompting Ohio's Sierah's Law, which created a searchable violent-offender registry.
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Golf estate, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa
Three members of the van Breda family were killed with an axe at their home on a golf estate in Stellenbosch, South Africa, in January 2015, while the youngest son was convicted of the murders in 2018 after a lengthy trial.
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Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California
Amie Harwick, a Los Angeles marriage and family therapist and author, was strangled and thrown from her third-floor Hollywood Hills balcony on February 15, 2020, by an ex-boyfriend who had a history of stalking her. He was convicted of first-degree murder in 2023 and sentenced to life without parole.
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Pretoria, South Africa
Model Reeva Steenkamp was shot and killed by her boyfriend, Paralympic and Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius, at his Pretoria home in the early hours of 14 February 2013. After a highly publicized trial, Pistorius was initially convicted of culpable homicide, but South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal later overturned that verdict and convicted him of murder, ultimately sentencing him to 15 years in prison.
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Star City, West Virginia (disappearance site); body found in Wayne Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania
Sixteen-year-old Skylar Neese disappeared from her Star City, West Virginia home in July 2012 and was found murdered months later. Two of her high school best friends, Rachel Shoaf and Shelia Eddy, pleaded guilty to killing her in a premeditated stabbing attack.
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Brookfield (family home), Brisbane
Allison Baden-Clay, a 43-year-old Brisbane mother of three, was murdered by her husband Gerard Baden-Clay in April 2012; his murder conviction was downgraded on appeal and then restored by the High Court of Australia in 2016.
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Vortex Spring, near Ponce de Leon, Florida
Ben McDaniel, a 30-year-old diver from Memphis, Tennessee, vanished after entering a cave system at Vortex Spring in the Florida Panhandle on August 18, 2010, and has never been found, despite extensive searches and a Florida death certificate issued in 2013.
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Eufaula, Oklahoma, United States
Bobby, Sherilynn, and Madyson Jamison disappeared from Eufaula, Oklahoma, on or after October 8, 2009; their remains were found in Latimer County in November 2013 and identified in July 2014, but no cause of death was ever determined.
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Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin
Julie Jensen was found dead in her Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin home on December 3, 1998, after being poisoned with antifreeze. A letter she wrote before her death naming her husband, Mark Jensen, as a suspect became central evidence. Mark Jensen was convicted in 2008, had that conviction overturned on appeal in 2015, and was convicted again at a second trial in 2023.
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Yeardley Love, a University of Virginia women's lacrosse player, was found unresponsive in her Charlottesville apartment on May 3, 2010. Fellow UVA lacrosse player George Wesley Huguely V was arrested and later convicted of second-degree murder, receiving a 23-year prison sentence.
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Whispering Cliffs Drive, Pocatello, Idaho
Cassie Jo Stoddart, a 16-year-old Pocatello, Idaho high school student, was stabbed to death on September 22, 2006 by two classmates, Brian Lee Draper and Torey Michael Adamcik, who said they were inspired by the film Scream. Both were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.
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Ocilla, Georgia, United States
Tara Grinstead, a Georgia high school teacher, disappeared from her Ocilla home on October 22, 2005, and was later declared dead. In 2017, Ryan Alexander Duke was arrested and charged with her murder; in 2022 he was acquitted of murder but convicted of concealing her death. A former classmate, Bo Dukes, was separately convicted for helping conceal the death.
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Route 112 near Woodsville, Haverhill, New Hampshire
On February 9, 2004, 21-year-old nursing student Maura Murray vanished after a single-vehicle crash on Route 112 near Woodsville, New Hampshire, and has not been seen since.
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Alhambra, California
Actress Lana Clarkson was found fatally shot inside record producer Phil Spector's Alhambra, California, mansion on February 3, 2003; Spector was convicted of her murder in 2009 and died in prison custody in January 2021.
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Modesto, California
Laci Peterson, 27 and eight months pregnant, disappeared from her Modesto, California home on December 24, 2002; her body and that of her unborn son Conner were found in San Francisco Bay in April 2003, and her husband Scott Peterson was convicted in 2004 of murdering both.
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Pinellas Park, Florida
Sandra "Sandee" Rozzo, a Pinellas Park, Florida bartender, was shot to death in her garage on July 5, 2003. Her former partner and coworker Tracey Humphrey and his wife Ashley Humphrey, married just one day before the killing, were both convicted in connection with her murder.
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Mesa, Arizona, United States
Travis Alexander, 30, was stabbed, slashed, and shot to death in his Mesa, Arizona home on June 4, 2008. His ex-girlfriend, Jodi Arias, was convicted of first-degree murder in 2013 and sentenced to life without parole in 2015 after two juries deadlocked on the death penalty.
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Leakin Park, Baltimore, Maryland
Hae Min Lee, an 18-year-old Baltimore County high school student, was strangled and found buried in Leakin Park in February 1999. Her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed was convicted of first-degree murder in 2000; the case gained international attention after the 2014 podcast Serial, and Syed's conviction underwent multiple vacaturs, appeals, and reinstatements through 2025.
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Belle Haven, Greenwich, Connecticut
Martha Moxley, 15, was found bludgeoned and stabbed with a golf club in her family's Greenwich, Connecticut backyard on October 31, 1975. Michael Skakel was convicted of her murder in 2002, but after multiple appeals his conviction was overturned in 2018, and in 2020 prosecutors announced they would not retry him.
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Sapienza University of Rome campus
Marta Russo, a 22-year-old law student, was fatally shot on the grounds of Sapienza University of Rome in May 1997, in a heavily publicised and contested case that ended in manslaughter convictions.
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Naas Dual Carriageway near Newlands Cross, Dublin
Irish investigative journalist Veronica Guerin, who had reported extensively on organised crime, was fatally shot in a contract killing while stopped at traffic lights near Newlands Cross, Dublin, on 26 June 1996.
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Vineyard near Linden, California, where Larry McNabney's body was found
Sacramento attorney Larry McNabney was killed in September 2001, authorities determined, by his wife, Elisa McNabney (born Laren Sims), and legal secretary Sarah Dutra, who injected him with a horse tranquilizer. His body was found buried in a Linden, California vineyard in February 2002. Elisa hanged herself in jail before trial; Dutra was convicted of voluntary manslaughter.
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875 Bundy Drive, Brentwood, Los Angeles
On June 12, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were stabbed to death outside Brown's Brentwood, Los Angeles condominium. Brown's ex-husband O. J. Simpson was charged with the murders, led police on a widely televised chase, and was later acquitted at criminal trial but found liable for both deaths in a subsequent civil suit.
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Girly Chew Hossencofft, a Malaysian-born bank teller living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, disappeared on September 9, 1999, shortly after filing for divorce from her husband Diazien Hossencofft. He and his girlfriend Linda Henning were later convicted of her murder. Her body has never been found.
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
In 1992, 16-year-old Japanese exchange student Yoshihiro Hattori was fatally shot by homeowner Rodney Peairs in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after Hattori and his host brother mistakenly went to the wrong house for a Halloween party. Peairs was acquitted of manslaughter but later found civilly liable for Hattori's death.
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Villa in Olgiata, Rome, Italy
Alberica Filo della Torre, a 42-year-old Roman noblewoman, was beaten and strangled in her locked bedroom at a villa in Olgiata, Rome, on 10 July 1991. The case went unsolved for 20 years until 2011 DNA evidence and a confession led to the conviction of Manuel Winston Reyes, a former domestic employee of the family.
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Fulham, London
English television presenter Jill Dando was shot dead outside her London home in 1999, and the case remains unsolved.
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Pikeville, Kentucky, United States
Susan Smith, a young FBI informant from Kentucky, was strangled in June 1989 by her handler and lover, FBI agent Mark Putnam, who later became the first FBI agent convicted of homicide.
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Southeast 31st Avenue, Portland, Oregon
Mulugeta Seraw, a 28-year-old Ethiopian student, was beaten to death with a baseball bat by three white supremacists in Portland, Oregon, on November 12–13, 1988. The killers were convicted, and a subsequent civil suit held White Aryan Resistance and its leaders liable for $12.5 million.
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Marana, Arizona (near Interstate 10)
Deanna Criswell, a 16-year-old runaway from Spokane, Washington, was found shot to death near Marana, Arizona in November 1987. She remained unidentified for 27 years until 2015, when relatives using online cold-case databases and forensic facial reconstruction helped confirm her identity. The suspected killer died in prison in 2005 and was never charged.
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Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California
Sherri Rasmussen was beaten and shot to death in her Van Nuys condominium in February 1986; the case went cold for more than two decades before Los Angeles police officer Stephanie Lazarus, her husband's former girlfriend, was convicted of first-degree murder in 2012.
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Mineral, Washington
In 1985, four people—Stephen Harkins, Ruth Cooper, Diana Robertson, and Mike Riemer—were killed in remote areas of Lewis and Pierce counties near Mineral, Washington, in a case that remains unsolved despite the discovery of a fourth victim's remains in 2009.
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1 Safdarjung Road, New Delhi, India
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was shot dead by two of her own bodyguards at her New Delhi residence on 31 October 1984, months after she ordered a military operation against Sikh militants at the Golden Temple. Her assassination triggered widespread anti-Sikh violence across India.
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Castle Square, Warsaw
Grzegorz Przemyk, an 18-year-old Warsaw student, died in May 1983 from injuries inflicted by police officers who detained him after his high school graduation; the killing and the communist government's attempt to cover it up became a defining scandal of Poland's martial-law era.
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Rangely Avenue, West Hollywood, California
Actress Dominique Dunne, 22, was strangled outside her West Hollywood home on October 30, 1982, by her ex-boyfriend John Thomas Sweeney; she died five days later after being taken off life support. Sweeney was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and misdemeanor assault, and served two and a half years of a six-and-a-half-year sentence.
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Washington Hilton, Washington, D.C.
On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan and three others outside the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. Hinckley was later found not guilty by reason of insanity.
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Chicago metropolitan area, Illinois
In September 1982, seven people in the Chicago area died after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules that had been laced with potassium cyanide after leaving the factory. The case remains unsolved as of 2026, though it led to nationwide tamper-resistant packaging reforms and federal anti-tampering laws.
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Westdale Mall parking lot, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Michelle Martinko, an 18-year-old Cedar Rapids, Iowa high school senior, was stabbed to death in her family's car in a mall parking lot on December 19, 1979. The case went cold for nearly 39 years until familial DNA analysis and genealogy database matching identified Jerry Lynn Burns, who was arrested in 2018 and convicted of first-degree murder in 2020.
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Marysville, Yuba County, California
Four members of a Yuba County, California basketball team for people with disabilities were found dead in the Sierra Nevada mountains months after a February 1978 disappearance, and the fifth, Gary Mathias, has never been found.
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Buffalo Bayou, Houston, Texas
José "Joe" Campos Torres, a 23-year-old Mexican-American Army veteran, was beaten by Houston Police Department officers after his arrest on May 5, 1977, and his body was found three days later in Buffalo Bayou. Two officers received only probation and a $1 fine at the state level, sparking outrage and the 1978 Moody Park Riot; three officers were later convicted federally of civil rights violations.
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Copenhagen, Denmark
A Danish far-left cell known as the Blekingegade Gang carried out a string of armed robberies between 1972 and 1988 to fund the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, fatally shooting a rookie Copenhagen police officer during its final heist before members were arrested, tried, and convicted in 1989–1991.
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Dhaka Central Jail, Dhaka, Bangladesh
On 3 November 1975, four senior Bangladeshi political leaders held at Dhaka Central Jail were shot and bayoneted to death by army officers acting under the post-coup government of President Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad.
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Sandy Row, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Ann Ogilby, a 31-year-old Protestant single mother, was abducted and beaten to death on 24 July 1974 by members of the Sandy Row women's Ulster Defence Association (UDA) unit in Belfast, in a punishment killing following a paramilitary "kangaroo court." Eleven people were convicted in February 1975.
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San Francisco, California, United States
Between October 1973 and April 1974, a group calling itself the "Death Angels" killed at least fifteen white people and wounded eight others in racially motivated attacks across San Francisco, prompting a controversial police manhunt known as Operation Zebra and the eventual conviction of four men.
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Catford, South East London
A 26-year-old man was found strangled after a fire at his Catford lodgings in 1972; three teenagers were wrongly convicted and later exonerated, and the killing remains unsolved.
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Sheraton Hotel, Cairo, Egypt
On 28 November 1971, Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi Tal was shot dead outside the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt, by members of the Black September Organization. Four men were apprehended by Egyptian authorities but were released without prosecution.
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Hyde, Greater Manchester, England
Harold Shipman, a GP in Hyde, Greater Manchester, was convicted in January 2000 of murdering 15 patients, including former mayoress Kathleen Grundy, using lethal doses of diamorphine. A subsequent public inquiry concluded he had killed at least 218 patients over roughly 27 years, making him one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history.
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Altamont Speedway, Tracy area, California, United States
Meredith Hunter, a young Black man, was fatally stabbed by Hells Angels member Alan Passaro at the Altamont Free Concert in California on December 6, 1969; Passaro was tried for murder and acquitted after arguing self-defense.
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Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee
On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray, an escaped convict, pleaded guilty to the murder in 1969 and was sentenced to 99 years, though he later recanted. A 1999 civil jury found Loyd Jowers and unnamed others civilly liable for a conspiracy, a finding the U.S. Department of Justice disputed in 2000 for lack of evidence.
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Speedy Laundromat, Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia
George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, was shot and killed outside a laundromat in Arlington, Virginia, on August 25, 1967. John Patler, an expelled party member, was convicted of first-degree murder in a case built on circumstantial evidence.
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Braybrook Street, Shepherd's Bush, London
On 12 August 1966, three London police officers were shot dead in Braybrook Street, Shepherd's Bush, after stopping a car to question its occupants. Harry Roberts, John Duddy and John Witney were convicted of the murders and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Railway underpass near Horbury Lagoon, Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Elsie Frost, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, was fatally stabbed in a railway underpass near Wakefield in 1965; despite a massive manhunt no one was ever convicted, and a 2019 inquest posthumously named Peter Pickering as her killer.
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Broad River Bridge, Georgia State Route 172, Madison County, Georgia
Lemuel Penn, a Black U.S. Army Reserve lieutenant colonel and D.C. school administrator, was shot and killed on a Georgia bridge in 1964 while driving home from military training. Cecil Myers and Howard Sims were acquitted of Penn's murder in state court and were later convicted in federal court of a civil-rights conspiracy connected to his killing.
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Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas
President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the killing but was himself murdered by Jack Ruby two days later, before facing trial.
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196 Lee Bank Road (now Lee Bank Middleway), Edgbaston, Birmingham, England
Thomas Bates, a 46-year-old Birmingham newsagent, was shot dead during an armed robbery of his shop on 2 June 1962. Oswald Grey was convicted of the murder and hanged in November 1962, though he maintained his innocence and questions remain about the sufficiency of the evidence against him.
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Hibiya Public Hall, Tokyo, Japan
On 12 October 1960, Japan Socialist Party chairman Inejirō Asanuma was fatally stabbed with a wakizashi by 17-year-old ultranationalist Otoya Yamaguchi, identified as the assailant, during a televised political debate in Tokyo. Yamaguchi was arrested, confessed, and died by suicide in custody on 2 November 1960.
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Dyatlov Pass, Ural Mountains, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia
Nine experienced Soviet ski hikers led by Igor Dyatlov died in the northern Ural Mountains on 1 or 2 February 1959 after cutting their way out of their tent and fleeing into a snowstorm inadequately dressed for the cold; Russian authorities reopened the case in 2019 and announced in 2020 that an avalanche was the most likely cause, though the deaths remain widely described as unexplained and some researchers dispute that conclusion.
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730 North Bedford Drive, Beverly Hills, California
On April 4, 1958, 14-year-old Cheryl Crane fatally stabbed Johnny Stompanato, the boyfriend of her mother, actress Lana Turner, at Turner's rented Beverly Hills home during a violent argument. A coroner's inquest ruled the killing a justifiable homicide and Crane was exonerated, though the case remains subject to enduring conspiracy theories.
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Yanaka Cemetery, Taitō, Tokyo, Japan
In the early hours of July 6, 1957, a historic five-storied wooden pagoda in Yanaka Cemetery, Tokyo, burned to the ground. Two charred bodies were found among the ruins, believed to be a seamstress and her married lover who died in an apparent murder-suicide by arson to atone for their affair.
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Asmall Lane, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England
Sisters Margaret and Mary Ormesher were beaten to death in their Ormskirk, Lancashire home on 5 May 1956 after Mary walked home alone carrying the week's shop takings. Despite fingerprinting every adult male in the town, the case remains unsolved.
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Victoria Park, Christchurch, New Zealand
Honorah Rieper was bludgeoned to death in Victoria Park, Christchurch, on 22 June 1954 by her teenage daughter Pauline Parker and Parker's friend Juliet Hulme, who feared being separated from one another.
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Oujda, Morocco
An anti-colonial uprising against the French protectorate erupted in Oujda, Morocco, on August 16, 1953, part of the wider Revolution of the King and the People, leaving multiple dead and leading to the prosecution of 96 Moroccans.
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Knowsley Hall, Merseyside, England
On the evening of 9 October 1952, 19-year-old trainee footman Harold Winstanley shot his employer Lady Derby and three colleagues at Knowsley Hall, Merseyside, killing butler William Stallard and under-butler Douglas Stuart. He was found guilty but insane and committed to Broadmoor Hospital.
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Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem
King Abdullah I of Jordan was fatally shot at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on 20 July 1951 by a 21-year-old Palestinian gunman, who was killed at the scene by the king's bodyguards. Ten men were later accused of plotting the killing, eight stood trial, and six were sentenced.
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Knowle Green, near Staines, Middlesex, England
In October 1944, taxi driver George Edward Heath was robbed and killed near Staines by Karl Hultén, a deserter from the U.S. Army, and Elizabeth Jones, an 18-year-old waitress, during a six-day crime spree; both were convicted of murder.
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Hagley Wood, near Wychbury Hill, Hagley, Worcestershire, England
In April 1943, four boys discovered the skeletal remains of an unidentified woman hidden inside a hollow wych elm tree in Hagley Wood, Worcestershire. Forensic examination indicated she had been dead since at least October 1941 and had suffocated, but she has never been identified and the case remains unsolved.
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Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California, USA
Elizabeth Short, known posthumously as the Black Dahlia, was found murdered in Los Angeles in January 1947 in a case that remains unsolved.
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Louisiana State Capitol, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
On September 8, 1935, U.S. Senator and former Louisiana Governor Huey Long was shot at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge and died 31 hours later. Carl Weiss, son-in-law of a judge Long had just moved to remove from office, was killed at the scene by Long's bodyguards; the exact circumstances of Long's fatal wound remain disputed.
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Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Phyllis Reiger, 22, was strangled by her former boyfriend, prison warder Jack McQuade, in his car in Rockhampton, Queensland in the early hours of 16 January 1935, two days after McQuade married another woman.
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Santa Beatriz Hippodrome (now Campo de Marte), Santa Beatriz, Lima, Peru
On April 30, 1933, Peruvian President Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro was fatally shot from behind while riding in his open-topped car at the Santa Beatriz Hippodrome in Lima. The gunman, APRA militant Abelardo Mendoza Leyva, was killed at the scene by presidential guards; a Republican Guard member was also killed in the attack.
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Macon County, Alabama
Between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service studied untreated syphilis in nearly 400 Black men in Macon County, Alabama, without informing them of their diagnosis or providing treatment, and more than 100 died as a result.
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29 Wolverton Street, Anfield, Liverpool
Julia Wallace was beaten to death in her Liverpool home in January 1931 after her husband William was lured away by a hoax phone call. He was convicted but the Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the verdict months later, and the killing remains officially unsolved.
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2 Church Road, Ramsgate, Kent
Margery Wren, a 79-year-old former maid and Ramsgate sweetshop owner, was fatally beaten with fire tongs at her shop in September 1930. She survived five days but refused to name her attacker before dying, and despite a police investigation involving Scotland Yard, the case was never solved.
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Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
In 1928, 22-year-old Philippe Halsman was accused of killing his father, Morduch Halsman, a Latvian Jewish dentist, during a hike in Austria's Zillertal valley. His first conviction, widely criticized as a product of regional antisemitism, was overturned by Austria's Supreme Court; a second trial convicted him of manslaughter, and he was pardoned by the Austrian president in 1930.
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86 Rochester Row, City of Westminster, London
In May 1927, the dismembered body of Minnie Alice Bonati was found in a trunk left at Charing Cross railway station's left-luggage office; estate agent John Robinson was convicted of her murder and hanged.
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Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey
Episcopal priest Edward Wheeler Hall and choir member Eleanor Mills, with whom he was having an affair, were found shot to death in a New Jersey field in September 1922. Hall's wife and her two brothers were tried in 1926 and acquitted; the case remains legally unsolved.
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Ruby, Arizona
Between 1920 and 1922, six people were killed in a series of robberies and manhunts centered on the Ruby Mercantile store near the border town of Ruby, Arizona, including two store owners, the wife of a second store owner, and two lawmen killed during a prisoner escape.
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Gartree Road, near Little Stretton, Leicestershire, England
Bella Wright, a 21-year-old factory worker, was shot dead near Little Stretton, Leicestershire, on 5 July 1919 while cycling home. Ronald Light, seen riding with her shortly before her death on a distinctive green bicycle, was tried for her murder in 1920 and acquitted.
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Orange, New Jersey
Beginning in 1917, factory workers who came to be known as the Radium Girls were poisoned after being instructed to shape radium-paint brushes with their lips; the resulting illnesses, deaths, and lawsuits against the United States Radium Corporation and the Radium Dial Company reshaped U.S. occupational health and labor law.
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Wonnangatta Valley, East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia
In late 1917 and 1918, station manager Jim Barclay and cook John Bamford were murdered in the remote Wonnangatta Valley, Victoria, Australia. Both men were shot and their bodies found separately months apart; the case remains unsolved.
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Degania Alef / Menahemia area, Ottoman Palestine
Moshe Barsky, an 18-year-old member of the Degania Alef kibbutz, was shot and killed by Bedouin raiders in 1913 while traveling to obtain medicine for a fellow kibbutznik. His death became a significant symbol in pre-Israeli Zionist history.
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Near Hotel Metropole, 147 West 43rd Street, Manhattan, New York City
Herman Rosenthal, a Manhattan bookmaker who had accused NYPD officers of extorting protection money from his illegal gambling operations, was shot dead outside the Hotel Metropole in July 1912. NYPD Lieutenant Charles Becker and four gunmen were later convicted of ordering and carrying out the murder and were executed at Sing Sing Prison.
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Tresjuncos, Cuenca, Spain
In 1910, a shepherd named José María Grimaldos disappeared from the Spanish village of Tresjuncos; two men were tortured into confessing to his murder and served over 12 years in prison before Grimaldos reappeared alive in 1926, leading Spain's Supreme Court to void their convictions.
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Agar Grove (formerly 29 St Paul's Road), Camden Town, London
Sex worker Emily Dimmock was found with her throat cut in her Camden Town home in September 1907; artist Robert Wood was tried for her murder and acquitted after a defence by Edward Marshall Hall.
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Big Moose Lake, New York
Grace Brown, a 20-year-old factory worker, was murdered by her boyfriend Chester Gillette on Big Moose Lake, New York, in July 1906 after she told him she was pregnant. Gillette was convicted and executed in 1908.
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34 Deptford High Street, Deptford, London
Thomas and Ann Farrow were beaten to death during a robbery at their Deptford paint shop in March 1905. A greasy thumbprint left on the emptied cash box was matched to Alfred Stratton, making this one of the earliest murder convictions in Britain based on fingerprint evidence. Alfred and his brother Albert Stratton were convicted and hanged in May 1905.
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Towitta, South Australia
Thirteen-year-old Bertha Schippan was stabbed and slashed to death at her family's home in Towitta, South Australia, on the night of 1 January 1902. Her sister Mary was tried for the murder but acquitted, and the case remains unsolved.
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Temple of Music, Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York
President William McKinley was shot twice by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition's Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, and died of gangrene from the wounds on September 14. Czolgosz was convicted of first-degree murder and executed by electric chair on October 29, 1901.
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Breakheart Hill Farm, Saugus, Massachusetts
George E. Bailey was shot and dismembered at Breakheart Hill Farm in Saugus, Massachusetts, in October 1900. His employee, John C. Best, was convicted of the murder and executed in 1902.
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Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C.
On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next morning. Booth and co-conspirators also targeted Secretary of State Seward and Vice President Johnson as part of a broader plot.
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Beach near Parkhouse, Ardrossan estate, Ayrshire, Scotland
Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton, was fatally shot on a beach near his stables at Parkhouse on his Ardrossan estate in Ayrshire on 24 October 1769 by excise officer Mungo Campbell, after a dispute over Campbell's right to carry a gun on the Earl's land. Campbell was tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang, but died by suicide in prison before the execution could take place.
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Plymouth Colony (near Providence–Plymouth trail), Massachusetts
In July 1638, Penowanyanquis, a Nipmuc man, was robbed and fatally stabbed near a trail between Providence and Plymouth Colony by four runaway indentured servants. He lived long enough to identify his attackers, three of whom were tried, convicted, and executed in September 1638.
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Uppsala Castle, Uppsala, Sweden
The 1567 killing of five imprisoned Swedish nobles and the king's former tutor at Uppsala Castle by King Erik XIV of Sweden and his guards during a period of the king's serious mental disorder.
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